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Igor Zalutski

@IgorZIJ

1 year

@DavidSacks You have over half a million followers. How does the content of this tweet affect decision-making of someone unsophisticated on Monday morning who happens to be a depositor in a Tier-2 bank? Is this a net good?

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@catalinmpit The funny thing about productivity is the sampling bias. The biggest fans of tools and frameworks actually represent the bottom of the productivity pyramid. Real productivity is about clear priorities. If you know what needs to be done and what doesn't, there's not much to track

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2 years

@paulg I put in a 1500-word brain dump about my company and asked it "what is this founder building and why". Got a sharp summary. Then I asked about key features; positioning weaknesses; risks and so on - and every single time I learned something profound.

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@the_P_God It doesn't, life sucks here. Americans wouldn't last a month. Those who dare soon leave in horror. People here are missing out on the best there is to life. No late night delivery in the office with friends. No weekend zoom calls. No email on vacations. Brrr. Worse still, they

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@vijaypande Amazing as a humanity progress thing. But also worrying as part of a broader trend of substituting discipline with a pill. How does knowing that addiction can be reversed affect society? What if all natural selection agents for discipline are disabled in similar ways?

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@paulg Yes. Something fundamentally different vs earlier text gen tools. I'm one of those usually-skeptical people and a busy founder; and yet I can't stop _talking to it_ for the last 2 days. It's the perfect rubber duck. Coach even? It is to the brain what NO2 is to combustion engine.

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3 years

@Austen Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! The book doesn't seem to be about anything in particular, and yet it split my understanding of myself into distinct "before" and "after"

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1 year

@s8mb Hard to beat aimless walking while entertaining all sorts of ideas, especially in a scenic setting

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2 years

@paulg Oh my. It's a perfectly capable "debate machine". I put in PG's "startup == growth" essay, then asked to make a case for it, then asked to make a case against it. Got strong cases both ways. This is an intellectual nuke.

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1 year

@GergelyOrosz This is the way. No notifications anywhere (bar for ones I set myself eg alarm / calendar) literally changed my life. 5y and counting, never looked back. In hindsight why would you want smth / someone to control your attention span?! That's privilege for a handful of closest ppl

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1 year

@INArteCarloDoss I banked my co with SVB and selfishly happy. But yes this is another step in the only possible sequence that's playing out with QE and all. To avert the bigger crisis _right now_, let's make another exception that'll make the already overextended system even less shock-resistant.

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1 year

@GergelyOrosz At the upper end of seniority the value of daily standups is recognised again - as a forcing function. Unblocking indeed doesn't need to wait for the whole day; senior folks do ot on autopilot. The big daily question becomes - does it still make sense to do what we agreed to do?

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1 year

@robkhenderson There's no "fix me" pill. It's that simple. The very fact that such a medication is so widely used proves that it's harmful - no studies or other proof needed. If some kind of a condition is so widespread it's not a condition to be treated; not innovation; just marketing indeed.

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1 year

@boristane Teams that consider estimtion a "silly dance" and are ok with PMs being useless tend to perform the worst, and have high concentration of people who either don't know any better (eg first job), or unable to, or don't care. Every bit of software that we build has negative value

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1 year

@realGeorgeHotz This take confuses professional training with university education. Indeed, most CS degrees today are glorified subpar courses. There are better ways to get professional training. But that isn't the point of university education. A good degree is about connections and

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1 year

@luke_metro Startup equity isn't about 2x, it's about 200x. Different math, and different amounts. You can probably pull a few single-digit $MM out of big tech jobs over 5-10 years; unlikely more. If that's the goal and enough then doing a startup is just stupid. Doing a startup is about

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1 year

@dailydirtnap Thanks for sharing this valuable insight! Let me guess: you have zero employees on payroll. You also likely can't tell the difference between a bailout (which preserves at least some equity) and guaranteeing deposits (wipes out equity). But that's OK

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1 year

@anothercohen I hate their UX with passion but feel the same. What surprises me is founders of competiting startup-focused banks amplifying the panic for acquisition. As if reputation for moral compass wasn't a thing.

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1 year

@dschatsky @paulg Almost all kids behave like entrepreneurs in _something_ initially - because they haven't yet been conditioned to value stability and consistency over curiosity. Then it fades away; not because of who they are, but because of how they are brought up.

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1 year

@dmokafa Lol do you even code bro?

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1 year

@INArteCarloDoss All along its been about kicking the can - avert a lesser issue now, shift it to the future, even if it becomes much bigger. Well _now_ the at-hand problem can hardly be called small; but same tradeoff made. Repeat until the "big bang". But my co can make payroll now. Am happy

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4 months

@theandreboso First time founder here Larned the hard way that the funnel can only be fixed starting from the bottom Trouble at the bottom means bad product, or non-existent problem No matter what you do TOFU, traffic or sales or whatever, it's not going to help Retention / renewals first

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1 year

@anothercohen Yes, and even more importantly - workers at a disadvantage. It's the new white collar / blue collar divide. Just like with corporate HQ vs regional offices. Decision power and upwards mobility will concentrate in the office; task execution in the remote periphery.

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Igor Zalutski

@IgorZIJ

2 years

@DailyDevTips1 Notion + Evernote. Using Evernote for over 10 years, frustrates me more and more, but somehow not fully moved to Notion yet. And then there’s still no good app to capture thoughts offline on the go, both require too many clicks to start writing and poor ux offline.

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1 year

@TheAnkurTyagi "earn with not much learning" is the riskiest place to be. The unforgiving property of the tech industry is this: just as fast as one can grow doing the in-demand thing, one can also become irrelevant. The party is still going but it can flip in an instant. Not learning? Quit.

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@thdxr This is also the reason why startups tend to beat larger orgs at their own game with a fraction of resources. Generalism Separating managing from making, just like other forms of specialisation, makes the org more efficient. But the cost is that it also makes the org much slower

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Thanks for tagging @nu_a_sho . This is a highly concerning matter and we take it extremely seriously at Digger. Digger has no working relationship with Oleh Kopyl since October 2023. Before that, Oleh was engaged remotely in ad-hoc freelance capacity; we were not aware of any

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Мені здається що час би @ain_ukraine @doucommunity @devua_official звернути увагу на поведінку Олега Копила і повидаляти статті про нього, або ж написати нові про домагання, які тут обговорюють вже не один тиждень. Також можливо @IgorZIJ зверне увагу на поведінку Oleh Kopyl і

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2 years

@IAmAaronWill This is a good plan but misses the point. The primary value of a reset is precisely to not have a plan. To discover what your inner self actually wants. To recover and refocus the way your body in mind need it. Create space by doing nothing, get comfortable with the uncertainty

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1 year

@GergelyOrosz Normally I'd agree with this. Wrong to judge people, esp on values. But hear me out. FAANG used to be great talent pools, a badge of honour some 10+ years ago. Now? No one wants to hire from there. Too many people with _certain_ values. I did react emotionally to your tweet.

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@INArteCarloDoss Whoa hold your horses. A politician should make decisions with the long term in mind? Wouldn't that be ridiculous? All that could possibly matter is re-election prospects. Numb the short-term pain at all costs, then come what may. Successor will blame them anyways, let's goooo!

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@AlecStapp This is unlikely to be net good for the world. There's no free lunch. In most (not all) cases obesity is a symptom. Same as treating cold with paracetamol: instead of taking a step back and giving the body space to recover, people keep working - losing health over long term.

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Igor Zalutski

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4 years

@domm Zero notifications. None, nowhere. Turned off. This allowed to reclaim back control of my attention span, become more proactive, and actually _more_ responsive. Oh and no more anxiety on something that I know of but can't attend to right now. Way fewer brain cycles wasted.

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@alchemy_cap @alexandr_wang The exact opposite. Real urgency looks fast but feels slow. What you're talking about is "busywork" not urgency. Productive people are rarely busy. They get a lot done by doing little. Effort only scales your output by 3-5x max; for 50x you think hard before doing _anything_

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@DavidSacks @elonmusk This indeed is a move commanding utmost respect. Say what you may about certain leadership and org design practices, but this particular org at the very least is now acting with integrity - which was hardly the case before.

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@amix3k Refreshing to see such realistic perspectives in founder-land. Even though I can't quite agree. Yes the 10x expectation is there, but what it means that all of Notion as it is today is viewed merely as a first act, an acquisition tactic, for something much bigger that's yet to

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1 year

@Austen - how much? - let's see how badly you need it... Call me later? - (calls) so, much? - well, quite a lot. But let's first make sure you desperately need it. Let's schedule some time next week - (next week) so how much?? - now that we know that it's mission-critical for your biz...

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Igor Zalutski

@IgorZIJ

10 years

The best Angular vs Ember comparison I've read so far: http://t.co/60QVGYrH0X by @BenLesh #angularjs #emberjs #frontend #javascript

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@alexandr_wang Its also practically superior in terms of rate of progress, no matter what is being done. Because counterintuitively it's almost always faster AND better to do smth twice (quickest dumbest way first, then again with learnings) than once "properly"

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@therealjayber Deep truths here. Focus is not even about priorities. It's about choosing which fires to let burn so that you put out the one that matters. All of it needs to be done! The hard part is choosing not to, and this requires discipline. As opposed to the lazy way of filling time with

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2 years

@alexandr_wang How would you hire for <senior role that has nothing to do with candidate's expertise>? There is hardly a better question to reveal ways of someone's thinking in unfamiliar domains

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1 year

@davegerhardt This is what separates a junior hire with a fancy title from someone who actually knows their stuff. 1 will rush into action to "have impact". 2 recognises that whatever idea they have early on is likely wrong and / or have been tried before. They'd rather take time to think

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@IgorZIJ

2 years

@jaltma Early Palantir. Pure "compound talent" effect - great early hires are a magnet for more great people. Push is even more important than pull - talent density scares away mediocrity.

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1 year

@alexandr_wang This. One way to embrace urgency is developing a sense of disgust towards incoherence. NOT inefficiency (which is actually a good thing). Incoherence as in "the top prio problem is X -> we're doing Y as the fastest way to solve it" not adding up. This lens alone can speed up 10x

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Igor Zalutski

@IgorZIJ

11 years

Just wrote a post about one interesting case of functional style usage in #JavaScript http://t.co/8f7jsY7Wr1 #fprog @AltorosBY

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Igor Zalutski

@IgorZIJ

3 years

@martin_casado My hunch is that vertically integrated cloud model will be replaced by horizontal commodity layers, like it happened with mainframes. Managed cloud services are conceptually similar to hardware - interoperability is artificially limited by vendor-controlled interfaces.

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@GergelyOrosz That's because for them UX is not a commercially meaningful factor. The product is purchased for entirely different reasons, by middle management who couldn't care less about the end user. Trainings are not to actually explain - they are for "work signalling" time allocation.

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1 year

@levelsio Retention is the most reliable indicator of value. So... Yeah.

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@IgorZIJ

4 years

@terronk This thread resonates enormously. I do believe that for over a decade, building software is becoming harder, not easier. Complexity growth is outpacing tooling.

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@IgorZIJ

1 year

@bznotes "Founded 4 weeks ago ... has yet to develop its first product ... first few employees started work only days ago"

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@IgorZIJ

1 year

@whyvert Can't help but draw parallels between the Nordic variety of socialism and the famous Mouse Heaven experiment that led to extinction of perfectly well cared for population of mice.

Mouse Heaven or Mouse Hell?

Biologist John Calhoun’s rodent experiments gripped a society consumed by fears of overpopulation.

www.sciencehistory.org

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@uzmabarlaskar Controversial take: this makes the said govt light years ahead of others. We have learned to tolerate "reasonable" promotions from companies; to a govt this is business-like way to engage users. Similar with their 3-tier visa processing time pricing - refreshing to see from govt

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1 year

@steviemctweets Yes. The whole "I don't need a degree" phenomenon is based on the assumption that the market will always stay hot for candidates. But there are no examples in history of that. Opposite happens - the more imbalance there is, the stronger are the forces at work to flip it.

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@IgorZIJ

3 years

@Ravisutanjani How's that? - the base fee is just $29 / mo, not $100 - every morning you need to get out and check in at least 100m away from your home - every day you don't check in before 6am the app charges you another $29 So your $100 budget covers 2 "snooze" days a month

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@IgorZIJ

4 years

Right now in Belarus, my home country, 100s of thousands are on the streets. Police are shooting at peaceful protesters. Internet is shut down. Today A. Lukashenka, in power for 26 years, declared to have won 80% of votes. I feel pain, fear for the loved ones, and hope @NEXTA_EN

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@IgorZIJ

1 year

@catalinmpit This has nothing to do with personal productivity. Nor it has anything to do with how any particular employee feels about it. The problem is group productivity, specifically dealing with uncertainty. In the ideal world everyone does what needs to be done. In reality, that's the

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@IgorZIJ

2 years

@Morgan_Anastasi Assuming it's not a joke (bad sense of humour), the best way is to solve a specific acute problem for someone who has money but doesn't have time. One group of such people is VC-backed tech startup founders. Find them on twitter or LinkedIn and ask what they need help with.

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1 year

@nikitabier True about risk But de-risking isn't by hiring a designer. Not even product. That's the one job the founding team has - call it whatever but everything else can be outsourced if need be (not ideal) but not this part. This "why the user is adopting" insight equals the business.

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@gilbert "free now" is more of a ritual to call someone's bluff if they make it sound important but it might not be. Then if it's truly important for you, can do now 1-3 weeks out is a clear way to signal that it's being treated as non-urgent Truly important stuff gets "later in the

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@IgorZIJ

1 year

@johncutlefish Overengineering, most of the time. Uncomfortable reality: software that _really_ needs to exist generates so much revenue that you can afford to rebuild it as many times as you want. All other software doesn't need to exist. But chooses to anyways because it's wannabe 1st kind.

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Igor Zalutski

@IgorZIJ

3 years

Learning JavaScript + HTML + CSS + {{frameworkName}} + Node is hard enough. With you can deploy your full-stack apps to AWS in one click. No need to learn any of the DevOps stuff. Digger just works out of the box with CI, logs, environments, databases etc

Digger - CI/CD orchestrator for Terraform

Digger is an Open Source Infrastructure as Code management tool that helps orchestrate Terraform and OpenTofu within your CI/CD system.

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@IgorZIJ

2 years

@Naina_2728 A startup is designed to grow big fast. A conventional business isn't. Big means $100m+ in revenue in 5-7 years. As a result they are run very differently. Example of a business: your local coffee shop. Example of a startup: a coffee chain that plans on overtaking Starbucks.

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9 years

You say, coding emails is hard? How about putting a fully-functional shopping cart in there?! That's mindblowing! @M_J_Robbins #fronttrends

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@AngeZanetti @theandreboso I don't think this is true. 100% focus is imperative. Part-timing is wasting time. Make it 6 days a week with a gig for 1 day to pay the bills and your pace of learning drops 10x and so do your chances of succeeding big. Even full time it's going to take years of failures.

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1 year

@dvassallo The irrationalal belief in being special can actually help achieve bigger things. It allows to cope with higher levels of uncertainty compared to someone who's realistic. Which in turn fulfills the belief. So whether you think you can, or not, either way you're right.

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10 months

@opentforg It's a great honour to be part of this initiative! The future of Terraform is open-source.

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1 year

@benedictevans Charge them $2k and be surprised. $10 and $2k a month is still in the same ballpark of "rounding error" for businesses that have a Procurement Policy. I once had a corporate as a client who had "no approval needed for invoices below $50k" policy. This actually saved them money.

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@IgorZIJ

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Amazing event tonight, learned a ton from @kiwicopple on building a commercial open-source company Huge shout out to @zmzlois for making this happen, on such a short notice! Unmatched energy in the room, felt like SF / NYC vibes brought to London - wow

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1 year

@mattturck Another way of looking at this phenomenon: those people are just ones who've built enough confidence to share what they think. Which may or may not be welcome, but the receiving end can choose to ignore it, while some might find it helpful. Net good.

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1 year

@AndrewYNg Rephrase smth; explain smth; generate concise per-chapter summaries of classical books; rubberducking; prep for meetings; devils advocate (eg make the opposite case)

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@asmartbear Can be called "fear of reduced optionality", in some sense the polar opposite of FOMO. Both fears concerned with reduced opportunity space: - FOMO senses loss from "not being in the (known) room" - This senses loss from "not being able to be in any other room"

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1 year

@SVB_UK @HSBC_UK Thank you guys! Easy to forget that it was a stressful couple of days not only for founders and investors but no less so for people at SVB. Great work on getting the deal over the line last night w @RothschildCo

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Igor Zalutski

@IgorZIJ

2 years

No, it's not Putin who started the war. It's Russia and Belarus. Military aside, journalists wrote propaganda articles. Policemen detained anti-war protesters. Judges jailed them. Teachers told kids it's a righteous "operation". 1/3

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@micsolana Desperation for yield flooded into VC, resulting in nonviable blitzscaled startups: - Forms of junk-risky lending (bnpl, b2b financing platforms) - Logistics that no one needs (instant groceries, bikes, scooters) - Trust brokers that struggle with trust (Uber, Airbnb)

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@IgorZIJ

2 years

@paulg Alternative view of meetings: the most intense mode of work possible. Everyone's brain is on afterburner. Problems that looked months-long get solved in minutes. Only one, max two of those a day are possible, after 2nd you're done for the day. Other kinds of meetings are waste.

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1 year

@GergelyOrosz Yep, open-core products are eating their SaaS equivalents' lunch. The days of crazy margins are gone indeed. That however doesn't make it any less venture scale. Most of the revenue in B2B software comes from high-ticket tiers anyways. At that price point, the customer is paying

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@IgorZIJ

11 months

@Suhail @elonmusk Noticing the same; most importantly, this is happening consistently. Great signs Despite the controversies, this feels like re-discovering focus. No easy way to do this; remarkable to even attempt at such scale. A move in the opposite direction vs the usual "getting corporate"

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1 year

@benedictevans Yep. 99% of the work is formulating the question. Repeatedly. The answer in and of itself isn't actually that valuable.

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@IgorZIJ

10 years

Just wrote a tiny chainable #svg path string generator in #javascript . Meet svg-path.js 0.1.0: Also works on #nodejs

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@dmokafa Its like saying you should build cars that never break. Sure. But they will break - if not for product issues then in some weird unlikely combination of circumstances. Same goes for systems reliability. You make a reliable system not by reducing failures to 0 - but by monitoring

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10 years

Early #snowboarding season opening this year was epic! #winter http://t.co/GAe9mSRL6r

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@IgorZIJ

2 years

@HarryStebbings Rude to your own health (mental and physical). Blocking time for lunch pays off in added productivity surprisingly quickly. No time to eat / sleep / exercise = poor time management = less value created in the medium and long run

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@IgorZIJ

1 year

@mikejlucky Daily time to think, in solitude, with no consumption or creation of anything, and no objective. Took me a while to see that real progress happens mostly subconsciously; we all have built-in prioritisation engine that is far superior to anything verbal. Just listen to it.

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1 year

You can trash the UK and Brexit as much as you want, and hail SF as the best place to build a startup. It might be, today. But the immigration pipeline in the UK is optimised for highly skilled talent. That's not the case in the US anymore. And the UK isn't trying to build a

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1 year

@naval But what about last mover's advantage and getting your competition do the work for you by learning from their failures?

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1 year

@jasonlk Zero Interest Phenomenon? Sorry couldn't resist

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@IgorZIJ

2 years

@lizziematusov Do NOTHING for at least an hour. Phone turned off. No screens. A walk if weather is nice, just sit there and think if it's not. Creating time for nothing is an unbelievably strong forcing function - it ensures good sleep, sane schedule, etc.

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1 year

@martin_casado Counterintuitively, better than today. We are swimming in an ocean of hyper-diluted junk. Any piece that is simply concise and on point instantly stands out. We are about to witness a "renaissance" of the internet - like in the early days, median quality will be high again.

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@IgorZIJ

1 year

@agazdecki I'd take it one step further: for the CEO it's the only job, do this full time and ensure everyone else in the team doing some of it too. There's no specialisation in a startup; not much else except growth matters. Building the product is also 80% to drive growth, 20% all else

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Igor Zalutski

@IgorZIJ

2 years

@Austen Could be because the vast majority of the population never took anything crypto/ blockchain seriously to begin with. So to a median person it all looks a bit like some nontraditional medicine guru killed a bunch of his followers with his latest potion. Sad but also...

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Igor Zalutski

@IgorZIJ

1 year

@amasad In such a circumstance one is supposed to continue digging sideways, thus altering the shape of the hole. The more ground is moved from walls to the bottom, the longer and shallower the hole becomes, eventually allowing a much-needed escape. I know coz my co is called Digger.

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Igor Zalutski

@IgorZIJ

11 months

@HarryStebbings Brooks worked wonders for me back when I was running a lot. Switched from Nikes, fit me perfectly, soft and responsive at the same time somehow. Was much lower distances though, about 1000km / yr, 1-2 runs a week.

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Igor Zalutski

@IgorZIJ

1 year

@thenewstack @sightful Can imagine. But struggling to imagine someone choosing this way over just looking at the screen(s). What is the problem it'd solve for the user? A screen is like a portal into a different room you go to do smth. Separation from environment is the whole point. Why blend?

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Igor Zalutski

@IgorZIJ

1 year

Effort beats talent. But focus beats effort.

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Igor Zalutski

@IgorZIJ

1 year

@anshublog It's a function of technology maturity. Early on, vertically integrated cars were the best because innovation happened at all levels of the stack. As the tech matured, horizontal layers stabilised and further optimisations came from scaling platforms.

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Igor Zalutski

@IgorZIJ

1 year

@sweatystartup Tiny GaN usb-c chargers from Anker. Got them for every wall socket at home and put one in every bag I carry. Then threw away all the Apple bricks and never looked back.

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Igor Zalutski

@IgorZIJ

10 months

Remember 3D TVs? Foldable phones seem to be on a similar track.

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Igor Zalutski

@IgorZIJ

1 year

@stevegraham Or maybe if a country's immigration system is not welcoming top talent, the said country should bear consequences of talent going elsewhere. A visa like H1-B is not your opportunity - it's the said country's opportunity to have you. If it chooses to waste it, so be it

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Igor Zalutski

@IgorZIJ

1 year

@natfriedman Hard to say what it is exactly but when I'm using V4 to "speed-read" some classical book its summaries feel more "fluidly" phrased, more linguistic variety or smth like that compared to V3.5

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Igor Zalutski

@IgorZIJ

1 year

@amyrlewin Bailing out isn't the same as guaranteeing deposits. The former might preserve some of the shareholders' equity. The latter wipes them out while reducing risk of people fleeing other small banks. It won't cost the taxpayer anything - the assets backing deposits still there.

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Igor Zalutski

@IgorZIJ

2 years

@nikitabier First statement true, second false & toxic. Raw output diff of health-crushing vs sane MO is 2-3x max. Not enough for a diff outcome. You move faster by learning faster; that requires sharp mind; which requires sparse time + peak health. Hard work is much easier than productivity

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